An r4r for redditors who need someone to talk to or want to help others out.

You're free to post anyway you like but here is a suggestion:
[L4 IF /W Depression]

L4= Looking for

IF= Internet Friend

/W= With

Other terms:

HTH = Here to help

RLF= Real Life Friend

STT=Someone to talk to

This is a place to make friends, have good conversation, hopefully enlighten others, but not a place of rescuers. Feel free to post anything that helps you with your depression. Pics, ideas, quotes, songs, inspiration videos, anything related to mental illness. Please use your best judgement as to what would fit and be appropriate to post in this subreddit. Thank you.

Please understand this is just a place to talk to other human beings. If you are seriously suicidal, that is ok, but please call the National Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK. Additionally, if you are having thoughts of hurting others, please call the anonymous, non-traceable, drug-gang-homicide hotline: 314-241-2677

This is not a savior or professional community, this a human to human community. :)

This subreddit all started with an idea. An idea that people who suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts have the potential to help each other. Most people have a hard time relating, a hard time listening to dark depressing things. Therapy can be great for some, but sometimes what we really need is a little understanding. This community is just for that. Here you can find other mates on the ship of life to help you clean the deck. This is a place to find online friends to help get yourself back on your feet. Sometimes we just need someone to talk to that won't judge us. Sometimes we just need someone that knows where we are coming from.

We are always open to suggestions. If you have a good experience with someone please share it/post about it.

This is a place of support, trolling will result in a ban Please no taunting, cruel statements, manipulation methods, suicide encouragement.

Please feel free to post contact information here if you are comfortable.

Full quote:
“Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.”
— Angelina Jolie

How do you figure out who you are? I have no idea. I feel like over the last year, I lost myself somehow. The girl I used to be. She was in here somewhere. I could feel her in the corner of my mind, struggling to come back to the front and live. Now... there's nothing. Just an empty space where she used to be. I'm hollow. I'm nothing.

What's the etiquette on replying to comments? Is there a time limit? If so I'm definitely contravening it.
In response to what you were saying, I think it helps to approach "who you are" not as an overarching concept, but as a series of little things. Maybe who you are is a girl who likes to draw angry faces on fogged up bathroom mirror and make up funny stories in your mind about the lives of the people you catch the bus to work with every day. Maybe who you are is a person who cannot abide tomatoes but will defend to the death their right to be classified as a vegetable.

No one person can de defined simply by a series of adjectives, and trying can only lead to more of the emptiness you describe. Who you are doesn't have to be some grandiose notion, just a series of little things which make you.